Uvs Lake Basin

Russia and Mongolia

Uvs Lake Basin, straddling Russia and Mongolia, carries 23 connections with 1246 other places across 6 topics. Nature ties dominate, anchored in the basin's position within the Tannu-Ola and Altai mountain ranges. The basin holds Central Asia's highest concentration of burial mounds, many predating the Egyptian pyramids. It shares the most connections with Gansu, along with several Central Asian neighbors including Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan. Its steppe, semi-arid desert, and tundra zones overlap with the wildlife ranges of snow leopards and demoiselle cranes.